One of several clumps we grew from seed collected in South Dakota (Black Hills)--all pretty white. Wonderful congested clumps of foliage in the trough.

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Phlox amoena SC Kentucky

A photograph taken last April in Kentucky, near the Cumberland river...these were prolific in the clearings under power lines where the woody plants are cleared. Makes you wonder what they did before the white folk. The botanist who showed these to us tells us that the power company is thinking of spraying under powerlines with herbicides...Sheeesh.

Phlox purpurea 'Arroyito'

Phlox bifida at Children's garden DBG

Phlos bifida 'Betty Blake'

Phlox caryophylla near Pagosa Springs, CO

Phlox caryophylla near Pagosa Springs, CO

Phlox condensata in trough at DBG

Phlox condensata in trough at DBG

Phlox 'Crackerjack' in my garden

Phlox divaricata 'Dirigo Ice'

Phlox divaricata in my home garden

Phlox adsurgens 'Wagonwheel' in my home rock garden

Phlox grayi in Children's garden, DBG

Phlox grayi in Children's garden, DBG

Phlox grayi in Children's garden, DBG

Phlox hoodii in my rock garden

Phlox kelseyi 'Lemhi Purple'

Phlox 'Liane'

Phlox lutea

Phlox 'Mary Maslin'

Phlox multiflora v. depressa in Routt Co., Colorado

Phlox multiflora v. depressa in Routt Co., Colorado

Phlox nana at Pat and Joel Hayward's garden in Masonville, CO

Phlox nana in a Denver garden

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Phlox subulata

Phlox pulvinata in my home rock garden

Phlox pulvinata on Medicine Bow pass, WY

Phlox 'Tiny Bugles' in my garden (thank you Mark!)

Phlox 'Tangelo'

Phlox 'Vanilla' in my home xeriscape

Probably extinct, the miniature sport of Phlox 'Arroyo'--which was developed and maintained for years by Homer Hill--a great nurseryman and friend, who's also no longer with us..

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Galanthus nivalis 'Viridapice'

February 21, 2018

Many of you have the impression that everything is always blooming always lovely in Denver. I suppose I have done a pretty good job of fooling you: last Sunday we had nearly 70F--and I was out in the garden, cutting back grasses and planting 200 pots of seedlings. By Monday morning the temperature had dropped to -4F (From 20C to -20C!). Such are the joys of the steppe climate. What are the chances my Mume which was opening its first flowers on Sunday has not been blasted?